1. This character was voted for, and Kurt is creating this character
2. What is this character’s name? - Lady Camilla Steading
3. What is their ancestry (i.e. human, elf, dwarf, halfling, etc)? - Human
4. What is your job or role (i.e. farmer, hierling/mercenary, shopowner, bandit, etc)? - She was born into the aristocracy of her homeland, but she does not care nor rely heavily on her societal or political standing. She instead prides herself in being an archaeologist, explorer, and adventurer, just like her late father. Lady Steading is a multi-class fighter with levels in rogue.
5. How old are you? - Late 20’s to Early 30’s
6. Describe your physical appearance - She stands 5’6” with an athletic build. Her long brown hair is often braided into a single strand or tied up into a ponytail or bun. She has brown eyes and an overall elegant and beautiful appearance, whether she is donning leather armor or a flowing ball gown. Underneath the finery and armor, she bears her fair share of scars from the various dungeons she has delved into in search of treasure and great historical artifacts. She can always be found wearing an ancient jade pendant, her first archaeological find as a child with her father while they were exploring an ancient ruin on an expedition.
7. Describe yourself with 3 adjectives. - Survivor, Bibliophile, Intelligent
8. What is a valuable item/piece of lore/secret that this character possesses? Or do they value an ideal/concept or particular person (i.e. family member, guild member, honor, justice, love etc.) - To aid her in exploration, she has a pair of enchanted dwarven war picks combined with ropes of climbing, which allow her to rapidly climb and descend throughout dungeons, caves, and ruins. She is further enhanced with a pair of Boots of Striding and Springing. She is well versed in ancient history cultures, both common and obscure. Secretly, she struggles with survivor’s guilt and her tendency toward violence when she is in danger or if she knows it would help solve her problems more easily, but she perseveres to take the least bloody path forward and she shows kindness to her friends, family, and to children.
9. What is a particular quest you would be willing to recruit or hire the player characters to go do? - Help her to clear out and map a nearby ruin to find a significant archaeological find (tomb/sarcophagus, cultural object, etc.)
10. What would be their reward for succeeding? - Credit in any discovery and an even share in the gold found. Lady Steading is more concerned about the artifact or significant cultural object.
11. What would be the consequence of failure or refusing the call? - Death of the player characters during the course of exploration. It’s possible the ruins collapse and they are unable to explore or recover any artifacts. If they refuse, then an order of knights arrive in the nearby town several days later and begin to question the people of the whereabouts of Lady Steading, silently killing anyone who opposes them. These are Knights of the Oracle, a secretive and heretical order within a major religion of the world who seek to discover the powerful relics, objects, and artifacts of the gods to bring the world to order under their ideology and control. Most peasants and common folk will only recognize their symbols in relation to the religion, and not to the cabal. These knights will interrogate the players if they are still within the town and get violent if need be. Their goal is locate Lady Steading, not to reveal their organization. Players who overcome these knights can then reveal their hidden agenda after successful investigative work.

Optional Questions - not required

• What are the goals and motivations of your character? - Lady Steading is continuing on with the tradition of her father in archaeology and adventuring not only in honor and love of him, but to also clear his name. The Knights of the Oracle systematically dismantled the credibility of her father to the sovereign ultimately before the Knights murdered him when she was a young girl. She has been working to solve and uncover the mysteries her father was working on to restore his name (and thus her household), and also to reveal and defeat the Knights of the Oracle.
• How do these affect your general personality? - She is determined in finding justice for her father. She is focused as she works very hard to decipher the research her father left, along with the deep love she has for reading about history and culture. She can be improper at times when it comes to matters of society or royalty, as she does not particularly care that she is part of the aristocracy; she has more important things to worry about. Circumstances have forced her to grow in confidence and ability when it comes to matters of the blade.
• How do you normally interact with your family/friends/peers? With your enemies/rivals? With people who work for you/report to you? With player characters? - She speaks with an air of authority in matters of history and archaeology. She treats her peers and employees with respect and cordiality. She is often snarky or quippy when it comes to dealing with enemies and rivals. She speaks with player characters skeptically at first (because she doesn’t know their skill levels and reputation or a lack of propriety or confidence); after she has gotten to learn more about them and bond, she will open up and treat them all with warmness and enthusiasm. She is an introvert at heart.
• Do you have a particular accent or language? Any idiosyncrasies in how you act and speak? - You can clearly hear an aristocratic accent in her voice and mannerisms, though she doesn’t rely on her station in society. As a well-educated woman, she can speak, read, and write fluently in Dwarven, Elvish, and Halfling. She is also able to speak, write, and understand Undercommon and Draconic as a non-native speaker. Any other languages require time spent translating in a library or finding an object or spell that would allow her to understand a language for a short time.
• What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? - Lady Steading has made it a point to undercover mysteries of the ancient world, and to share the knowledge with the world. Her first major discovery as a young adult was finding an ancient island in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by perpetual storms. A source of constant shipwrecks, a cult of worshippers trapped there sought to resurrect a cleric lich back into a mortal body to break the cycle of storms. Lady Camilla with aid was able to kill the lich and destroy the cult, all the while, working to recover long lost artifacts to be returned to the nations and temples of the world, shared in various museums, or returned to secured vaults to ensure those dark objects would never see the light of day again. She is something of a folk hero to the common people, as she helps to bring history and wonder back into the world. Her credibility among royalty or aristocracy is working on improving, but thanks to the subterfuge by the Knights of the Oracle, is sometimes stagnant. She is often traveling the world and can occasionally be found at Steading Manor, researching or planning her next expedition.
• Do you have any current problems that prevent you from being a bigger player on the stage? - Her biggest problem is the secret war that is being conducted by the Knights of the Oracle to silence and stop Lady Steading from revealing their existence to the religious and royal authorities, as well as constantly working to acquire the powerful relics that they would use to assert dominance on the world. She is in a constant race and competition against this nefarious organization. Without the constant threat of death or politics, she would be free to explore the world in peace and bring honor back to her father and her family.